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“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“To define is to limit.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every one desires happiness, but to secure it he must know what happiness is.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

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